FX's 'American Crime Story' may include murder of Chicago's Lee Miglin in new season

Reuters

Technicians with the Dade County Coroner's Office wheel the body of 27-year-old Andrew Cunanan from a Miami Beach boathouse in 1997. Cunanan was wanted in the murder of fashion designer Gianni Versace, Lee Miglin and three others, was found dead of an apparent suicide.

Technicians with the Dade County Coroner's Office wheel the body of 27-year-old Andrew Cunanan from a Miami Beach boathouse in 1997. Cunanan was wanted in the murder of fashion designer Gianni Versace, Lee Miglin and three others, was found dead of an apparent suicide. (Reuters)

The cable network FX may be in town for one day next week to shoot a scene for its anthology series “American Crime Story.” The second season centers on the 1997 Miami murder of fashion designer Gianni Versace by Andrew Cunanan, who killed at least five people across the country over a three month period.

Filming in town remains unconfirmed by the network — and the Chicago Film Office has only had preliminary conversations with FX so far (no permits have been pulled as of yet). But 4 Star Casting has posted a call for extras available to work next Friday.

If one were to speculate and indeed “American Crime Story” does come to Chicago, it might be for a scene or two relating Cunanan’s murder of prominent local real estate developer Lee Miglin, who was 72 at the time of his death.

Miglin was married to Home Shopping Network cosmetics maven Marilyn Miglin, long active in Chicago’s civic and social scene.

Law enforcement never found a link between Cunanan and Miglin, calling it a crime of opportunity that occurred while Miglin was tidying a garage located in an alley behind his Gold Coast home. Per WLS, “After murdering Miglin in his garage, Cunanan went into the family's home, ate a ham sandwich, shaved and rested. He stole Miglin's car and got a head start on what became a nearly three-month U.S. manhunt with a nation on edge.

“Cunanan killed a random New Jersey cemetery worker just for his truck, then traveled to Florida. At a Miami Beach pawn shop he sold a $50 gold coin he'd stolen from Miglin, even signing his own name. Then the Cunanan coupe de grace: He murdered fashion icon Gianni Versace outside his Miami Beach palace” before ultimately killing himself a few days later.

According to 4 Star, the production is looking for men and women between the ages 18-65, any ethnicity: “We are looking for people with older cars for this story.”

It’s worth stressing that it is still unclear if Miglin’s death will be incorporated into the FX show — and if so, just how much that will play into its examination of the murders themselves.